The Question Box

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 20 February 1926, Page 16

The Question Box

THIS WEEK’S QUERY; Where was it that Noah’s Ark rested after the Flood? Phyllis Woodhead has the honour of getting last week’s question right. Read 1 liow well she has answered it. Now, who is asking the question for next week? WHY IT IS DARK AT NIGHT. When the sun first rises it shows us a little bit of light, and, as it goes over towards the west it shows us more and more light. When it is half-way across the skv it shows, the strongest light of d^jflMlfclight

WHY IS IT DARK AT NIGHT ?

we call it night time. The sun shows us our light and sends us down its strong heat.—Phyllis Woodhead.

[The sun does not move.. It is fixed, but it is convenient for us to say that it does. What really happens is that the earth moves round on its axis from west to east. It takes 24 hours to make one complete revolution or turn. Night and darknesai cover the period of time when that, part of the earth on which we live is turned away from the sun. Some part of our. world, then, is always in darkness. Besides turning on its axis, the earth moves in a certain course, making different lengths of night in the various seasons. We have much less: darkness now than we have in winter. When we have darkness people on. the other side of the globe having light.—S.Q.]